I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.

There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.

Except if it has some historical meaning for them to have Tibet under their control. I don't understand why [ Chinese] want it so much.

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

Personally, as a student who loves words, who loves texts, I am concerned with finding something in the text from within.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

A Jew who converted, who simulated, was, at least in some periods, safe. Hitler in the beginning did not want to kill all the Jews but he wanted us to have a Germany free of Jews. If America had allowed Jews to come in, the British had accepted Jews from Palestine, they were safe.